Infrastructure Determinants and Structural Components of Population Quality-of-Life Resilience under Sustainable Development

Abstract

The article substantiates the theoretical and applied foundations for the formation of population quality-of-life resilience under sustainable development based on the identification of infrastructure determinants and structural components ensuring the stability of socio-economic systems. It is proved that under conditions of global instability, military threats, energy crises, digital transformation, and climate challenges, infrastructure acts not only as the material basis for the functioning of territories, but also as a key prerequisite for ensuring adaptability, security, and resilience of the population’s quality of life. Modern scientific approaches to the interpretation of the concepts of “resilience”, “infrastructure”, and “population quality of life” are generalized. The key infrastructure determinants of population quality-of-life resilience formation are identified, among which energy, transport, logistics, digital, social, environmental, and security infrastructure have a system-forming significance. It is substantiated that the development of these infrastructure systems determines the ability of territories to maintain functional stability, ensure continuity of population life support, and adapt to crisis impacts. The structural components of ensuring population quality-of-life resilience are systematized, namely: institutional, infrastructural, social, economic, security, digital, and environmental. A conceptual model of the interrelation of structural components of resilience provision is proposed, which makes it possible to comprehensively integrate institutional, infrastructural, social, economic, digital, security, and environmental elements into a unified system for ensuring territorial resilience. The relationship between infrastructure transformation and the provision of resilient sustainable development has been established. It is proved that infrastructure modernization should be based on the principles of sustainability, resilience, inclusiveness, energy efficiency, digital integration, and environmental responsibility. Particular attention is paid to the Build Back Better concept as the basis for the formation of resilient, energy-efficient, digitally integrated, and environmentally oriented infrastructure systems in the process of Ukraine’s post-war recovery. The practical significance of the obtained results lies in the possibility of their use in the formation of state regional development policy, post-war recovery strategies, modernization of critical infrastructure, and the development of mechanisms for ensuring the infrastructural resilience of territories. UDC: 338.49:330.59(477); JEL: H54, I31, O18